Louisiana attorney general Liz Murrill said this week that Danette Colbert should not have been eligible to have been out on ...

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...

Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for condemned inmates told Newsweek.

An ICE detention facility in Louisiana made national headlines this week after a Columbia University graduate was arrested ...

Scott Peterson, the man convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son, was injured after an interaction with another person ...

Caleb Wilson died after being punched in the chest during an alleged off-campus hazing incident in Baton Rouge, police said.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard received a stiff prison sentence for involvement in mother's murder. In Touch takes a closer look at how ...

All of the remaining migrants being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been moved to Louisiana over the last two days, according to a U.S. official.

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction stopping the state from moving forward with Jessie Hoffman Jr.'s execution.